Poland Plane Crash

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  F-16 Pilot Killed After Fighter Jet Crashes In Poland During Airshow Rehearsal

  A Polish Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday during a rehearsal for an airshow in Radom, central Poland, killing a Polish Army pilot.

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  Small Plane Crashes In Poland, 5 Killed: Minister

  A small plane crashed into a hangar at an airport near Warsaw on Monday, killing five people, Poland's health minister said.

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  A Plane Crash Was Foundation Of This Man's Bid For Power Over A Nation

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the late president's twin brother, nurtured a cult of conspiracy around the crash that became the galvanizing force for a movement that made him Poland's most powerful man.

• Eleven Killed, One Hurt in Small Plane Crash in Poland

  Eleven people were killed and one was injured when a small plane carrying parachutists crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff in southern Poland, firefighters said Saturday.

• Two small planes crash in Poland, 6 dead

  Authorities in Poland report two small planes have crashed within half an hour in separate accidents in the southern part of the country, killing six people.

• Air stunt goes wrong, plane crashes into river

  A small plane lost control and plunged into a river on Saturday as it performed stunts at an air show in Poland.The accident occurred in Plock, in Central Poland, as people gathered by the Vistula River for a picnic and the air show.The news station TVN24 broadcast images of the small plane doing aerobatics when it began spewing out plumes o...

• Russia blames Polish crew in Kaczynski air crash

  Russian officials investigating the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski placed the blame squarely on the Poles on Wednesday, saying the crew was pressured to land in bad weather by an air force commander who had been drinking.Kaczynski and 95 others, including his wife, died in April 2010 when their Tu-154 plane crashed while tr...

• Polish leader to visit Russia on crash anniversary

  Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will visit Russia in April on the anniversary of the plane crash that killed his predecessor, Lech Kaczynski, the Polish ambassador to Moscow said today."A visit to Russia certainly is planned, at least for the first anniversary of the Smolensk tragedy," ambassador Wojciech Zajaczkowski told the Interfax news a...

• Poland rejects Russian report on plane crash

  Poland's Prime Minister says Russia's draft report on the causes of this year's plane crash in Russia that killed Poland's president is unacceptable.Donald Tusk today criticised some of the conclusions of a report by a Russian commission investigating the crash as unfounded and said the document shows the commission's "negligence, or mistakes, or n...

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  70 years apart, two Polish tragedies in same forest

  When Poland lost its president and top military brass Saturday in a plane crash that killed 96, it also lost much of its living history and other elite members of society.

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  Poland: Week of national mourning declared

  The whole country is in mourning after Saturday's devastating plane crash. Poland held a two-minute tribute, with church bells and police sirens.